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Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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15 hours 54 min

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Masters of the Planet

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Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of ... Read more

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Life on a Young Planet

The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

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Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites—such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a ... Read more

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Power, Sex, Suicide

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Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that.Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell ... Read more

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Политика у шимпанзе. Власть и секс у приматов

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The Deep History of Ourselves

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The Elephant in the Brain

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by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson ...

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10 hours 26 min

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better—and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the ... Read more

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EVOLUTION OF BREATH, THE

Explore the Fascinating History & Hidden Secrets of Breathing, Reveal the Scientific Discoveries & Key Evolutionary Milestones, & Uncover its Powerful Impact on Human Biology

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2 hours 45 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Have you ever wondered how the simple act of breathing has shaped life on Earth for billions of years?What if the air you breathe holds the key to unlocking the hidden secrets of human evolution?How has the evolution of breathing allowed life to thrive in water, land, and even shaped the future of human biology?Breathing is the essence ... ... Read more

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Gaia Wakes

Earth's Emergent Consciousness in an Age of Environmental Devastation

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12 hours 27 min

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Making Sense of Cancer

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Design Dissected

Is the design real?

by David J Galloway ...

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5 hours 58 min

Many people assert that all of reality, including life, has simply emerged as a result of natural law and circumstance. How credible is that assumption? How well does it fit with what we find? Exquisite features of apparent design are in evidence everywhere we look. Either something is responsible for all the molecular engineering of life or, it just happened and nothing is directly responsible. ... Read more

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Many people assert that all of reality, including life, has simply emerged as a result of natural law and circumstance. How credible is that assumption? How well does it fit with what we find? Exquisite features of apparent design are in evidence everywhere we look. Either something is responsible for all the molecular engineering of life or, it just happened and nothing is directly responsible.
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Survival

Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival

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Series Audiobook 1 - Survival
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Hard Evidence for ET Origins and Visits

A Scientific Story of Creation

by Scott R. Campbell ...

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4 hours 24 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the film Prometheus about traveling to the moon of a distant planet to find our creators, Shaw and Holloway make a presentation on their research to the crew. They seek answers to the age-old questions of where we came from. They claim our DNA was “engineered” by the same advanced alien species they seek.Immediately the biologist on the crew objects ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the film Prometheus about traveling to the moon of a distant planet to find our creators, Shaw and Holloway make a presentation on their research to the crew. They seek answers to the age-old questions of where we came from. They claim our DNA was “engineered” by the same advanced alien species they seek.Immediately the biologist on the crew objects
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Divine Intelligence

Is Life Woven Into the Fabric of the Universe?

by Ylia Callan ...

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1 hour 31 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Divine Intelligence - Is Life Woven Into the Fabric of the Universe takes listeners on a profound journey through science, philosophy, and spirituality to explore one of the deepest questions of all: is life an accident of chance, or a fundamental feature of the cosmos itself?From the first sparks on a young Earth to the latest discoveries of ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Divine Intelligence - Is Life Woven Into the Fabric of the Universe takes listeners on a profound journey through science, philosophy, and spirituality to explore one of the deepest questions of all: is life an accident of chance, or a fundamental feature of the cosmos itself?From the first sparks on a young Earth to the latest discoveries of
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Reflective Cosmos, The

A Unified Theory of Space, Life and Mind

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Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Reflective Cosmos - A Unified Theory of Space, Life and Mind invites listeners on a profound journey into the very fabric of existence. Blending cosmology, physics, biology, and philosophy, this groundbreaking work proposes that the universe itself is a mirror - a reflective medium through which space, time, life, and consciousness reveal their ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Reflective Cosmos - A Unified Theory of Space, Life and Mind invites listeners on a profound journey into the very fabric of existence. Blending cosmology, physics, biology, and philosophy, this groundbreaking work proposes that the universe itself is a mirror - a reflective medium through which space, time, life, and consciousness reveal their
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The Universe Within

Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

by Neil Shubin ...

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Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies ... Read more

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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded inside each of us?In Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies
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Bite

An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

by Bill Schutt ...

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From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth.In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, ... Read more

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From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth.In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth,
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Human Agency

75% DNA, 25% Free Will

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Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

Nature versus nurture has shaped centuries of debate—but what if the answer is neither, and both?In Human Agency: 75% DNA, 25% Free Will, scientist and biotechnologist Muren Herrid, PhD, revisits the classic question of whether our lives are determined by genetics (nature) or environment and experience (nurture)—and argues that modern science demands a more nuanced answer.Drawing on research in ... Read more

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Nature versus nurture has shaped centuries of debate—but what if the answer is neither, and both?In Human Agency: 75% DNA, 25% Free Will, scientist and biotechnologist Muren Herrid, PhD, revisits the classic question of whether our lives are determined by genetics (nature) or environment and experience (nurture)—and argues that modern science demands a more nuanced answer.Drawing on research in
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Skeleton Keys

The Secret Life of Bone

by Riley Black (Brian Switek) ...

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6 hours 56 min

“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street JournalOur bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you ... Read more

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“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street JournalOur bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you
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The Cat's Meow

How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa

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11 hours 21 min

**The past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover."Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Cat's Meow is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks within Fluffy." —The Washington Post**The domestic cat—your cat—has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little ... Read more

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The Fool and the Heretic

How Two Scientists Moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution

by Todd Charles Wood, Darrel R. Falk ...

Narrated by Gabe Wicks, John Behrens, John Watson ...

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3 hours 40 min

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected ... Read more

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The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected
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The Shortest History of Sex

Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

by David Baker ...

Narrated by Grant Cartwright ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future?With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical, ... Read more

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From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future?With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical,
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Life

The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

by John Brockman ...

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Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come—and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter ... Read more

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Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come—and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter
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A World Beyond Physics

The Emergence and Evolution of Life

by Stuart A. Kauffman ...

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3 hours 44 min

Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere ... Read more

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Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere
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Masters of the Planet

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The Deep History of Ourselves

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Design Dissected

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